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The 12 Steps

We admitted we were powerless over food — that our lives had become unmanageable.
Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.
Admitted to God, to ourselves and to another human being the exact nature of our wrongs.
Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.
Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.
Made a list of all persons we had harmed and became willing to make amends to them all.
Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.
Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong, promptly admitted it.
Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.
Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to compulsive overeaters and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

The OA 12 and 12

Those of us who live this program don’t simply carry the message; we are the message.

The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous (p. 106)

Any action, no matter how small, will help us to overcome deadly procrastination.

The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous (p. 31)

Far from being a negative factor, the admission of our powerlessness over food opens the door to an amazing newfound power.

The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous (p. 5)

Humility means that we will no longer be shocked and horrified when we realize we have yet another defect.

The Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions of Overeaters Anonymous (p. 63)

Relapse is not contagious, but recovery is.

Twelfth-Step-Within Handbook (p. 5)

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